Reread my above post and please provide an answer. Also can you explain the "Jibberish" in your post above?
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No, you reread the post where I originally described the cymbal experiment, and note my description of it.
See, the basic problem is those who cannot understand signal analysis. If they did, they would be fairly happy with the 18/19kHz intermodulation analysis I posted. . . where the cassette didn't do too well.
The cymbal experiment shows that as signal complexity increases, the devices under test continue to behave in predictable manners, based upon our understanding of them from less complex signal tests. I knew that the cassette was going to suck bad on the cymbal test; I knew it was going to have serious problems with flutter and intermodulation distortion and frequency response, because I could see that on the sine wave and white noise source tests.
And therefore when I transferred the actual cymbal hit (which is even more complex of course, as initially described and posted) to cassette (I didn't post that, but I can), I knew it was going to sound badly distorted. And it did.
So we have learned that there is no such thing as a system that performs like crap on a sine wave yet still performs well on a complex signal (which is really just a whole bunch of sine waves). Circuits that choke on a 1kHz signal are not going to be good for accurate audio recording. Circuits that kick off a large amount of THD on a sine wave will probably have a significant amount of IMD. Maybe that 10% 3rd-order at 100Hz sounds good on a single harmonic instrument, but when you mix harmonically unrelated sources (like the cymbal experiment) through a system that generates a lot of THD you'll get a lot of IMD, which is harmonically unrelated distortion that most people tend to think sounds really bad.
You may be an "artiste" who records "musique", but if your recording system cannot pass a reasonably accurate facsimile of a square wave (of course a perfect square wave cannot exist), say at least a 20kHz bandwidth 100Hz square wave, it's not going to be in any way, shape, or form an accurate recording system.
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Now, your test results please. Seriously, we have been waiting a week, what is taking you so long?